You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.
Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.
You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care, nor your nights without a want and a grief, but rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.
For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.
Remembrance is a form of meeting.
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
You are far, far greater than you know – and all is well.
It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; and to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving.
Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
Only love and death will change all things.
Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive.
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.
No human relation gives one possession in another – every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.